Mohammad Ali Jafari

Mohammad Ali Jafari (11 November 1957-) was the commander of the IRGC from 1 September 2007, succeeding Yahya Rahim Safavi.

Biography
Mohammad Ali Jafari was born on 11 November 1957 in Yazd, Iran. He was one of the protesters in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, for which he was thrown in jail by the Pahlavi dynasty. At the start of the Iran-Iraq War in 1980, he joined the Basij (also known as the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution or Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) paramilitary force and from 1992 to 1993 he taught at the War University of the Revolutionary Guards, Basij's school in Iran. In 2007 he succeeded Yahya Rahim Safavi as the commander of the IRGC, and he helped the Syrian Arab Republic in suppressing protests during the Syrian Civil War from 2011 onwards.